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20 March 2013 Last updated at 17:17 GMT Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Canadian man to sell house for Bitcoin virtual currency Mr More says that a Bitcoin payment would help a new venture he is planning Continue reading the main story Re...

The community around Bitcoin, the fast-growing virtual currency that sustains an economy worth more than $650 million , has been shaken by what seems to be the first government response to its phenomenal rise. Yesterday the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of th...

If you think your savings are under threat -- from a banking collapse, government seizure or anything else -- the traditional thing to do is withdraw your cash and stick it under a mattress. But could Europeans scared of losing their cash be turning to Bitcoins instead? One of the sid...

US regulator: Bitcoin exchanges must comply with money-laundering laws the federal agency charged with enforcing the nation's laws against money laundering has issued new guidelines suggesting that several parties in the bitcoin economy qualify as money services businesses under us la...

Since Sunday, a trio of Bitcoin apps have soared up Spain’s download charts, coinciding with news that cash-strapped Cyprus was planning to raid domestic savings accounts to pay off a $13 billion bailout tab. Fearing contagion on the other end of the Mediterranean, some Spaniards are ...

Worried your government is going to take your savings? There's an app for that. Actually, there's an entire currency: Bitcoin, an online-only currency based on a decentralized network. It's unregulated, hard to track and increasingly common. Since Sunday, downloads of three Bitcoin-re...

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An Alberta man is hoping to become the first person to sell a house for bitcoins. He's asking CAD$405,000, or its equivalent in bitcoins, for the 3.6 acre site. "We are hoping to be the first piece of real estate sold for bitcoins," Taylor More told us by e-mail. "We think maybe this ...

The thought of Bitcoins may make you laugh hysterically, unable to carry on a full conversation about the pseudo currency. Alternatively, someone calling Bitcoin a “pseudo currency” may have you up in arms, willing to spend all your precious, mined coins on a way to silence that obvio...

n a sign of the times, FinCEN, the US Treasury Department agency in charge of combatting money laundering, issued guidance on Monday on the regulatory status of Bitcoin users and exchanges . Although some, like my friend and Cato adjunct scholar Tim Lee, believe that the guidance is b...

Reason The great Cypriot bank account grab of 2013 may or may not be off. Sure, Cyprus's lawmakers rejected a proposal that would carve a chunk out of the deposits of every depositor in the country, but officials are back for another try. The latest proposal would nationalize the coun...

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Is Bitcoin the New Safe-Haven Currency? Bitcoins Surge After Cyprus Bank Raid March 20, 2013 | Filed under: Economics ,Europe | Posted by: JGVibes Activist Post March 20, 2013 Is Bitcoin now a safe haven currency? It wasn’t long ago when it was considered merely an interesting crypto-...

Timothy Lee at Forbes magazine has reported today that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a branch of the Treasury Department, has issued new guidelines on the legal status of Bitcoin under U.S. money laundering laws. Essentially, Bitcoin dealers have now been placed u...